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It surprised me Razor-qt. I have to say that this environment is not nearly as complete and comprehensive as Trinity, but memory consumption is staggering. That would be a consequence of using Qt4? The choice to remain in Trinity with Qt3 => TQt3 seems to be a very good decision.
Slavek
Excellent information! According to the second page, TDE is actually competitive with (and in some cases surpassing) the traditional "lightweight" desktop environments. This is a very pleasant surprise for me; I had no idea that TDE was even in the same range as I do not run XFCE/LXDE on my systems.
Regarding Razor-qt, yes, AFAIK a large amount of the measured "bloat" is directly related to the use of Qt4. Other culprits might include heavy use of relatively clunky system messaging interfaces, though I would expect more of a performance drain from this than a waste of memory.
Thanks for the links!
Tim